The View from the Sea. The practice of early modern transoceanic commercial navigation. Guest Editor Guido Abbattista, Special Issue of "Itinerario. Journal of Imperial and Global Interactions", volume XLVIII, issue 1, 2024

This special issue of Itinerario deals with the historical questions that inspired the Global Sea Routes project, from which the essays in the issue derive. It then illustrates the particular sources used in the project, namely logbooks, specifically those of the English East India Company, whose characteristics and interpretation problems are briefly presented. Then, it illustrates the digital tools used in the analysis of those sources and to obtain the digital graphic and cartographic representation of the research results; and finally, it introduces each individual essay contained in the issue.